Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 36

Every evening I have permission to take home to my poor sick mother the scraps from the table; she lives down by the sea-shore, and as I come back I feel tired, and I sit down in the wood to rest, and listen to the nightingale's song.

Who acts: I, nightingale · What happens: have, take, live down, come back, feel, sit down · To what, where: permission, wood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nightingale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 permission	acl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 take	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 mother	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 scraps	det
15	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mother	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scraps	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lives	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lives	nsubj
21	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 lives	compound:prt
23	by	by	ADP	_	27 shore	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shore	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shore	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 sea	punct
27	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lives	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 feel	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 feel	cc
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 feel	advcl
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 feel	nsubj
35	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lives	conj
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feel	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sit	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sit	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 sit	nsubj
40	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 sit	compound:prt
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 wood	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wood	det
44	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sit	obl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 rest	mark
46	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 sit	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 listen	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 listen	cc
49	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 rest	conj
50	to	to	ADP	_	54 song	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 nightingale	det
52	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 song	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 nightingale	case
54	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 listen	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	permission		evening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
2	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	permission not said here			to my poor sick mother the scraps from the table result; home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result
3	live down	present	nightingale				by the sea shore	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Location
4	come back	present	I					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	present	I				tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	sit down	present	I		the wood			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
7	rest	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	listen	infinitive	I not said here				to the nightingale's song	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
9	sing		the nightingale					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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